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Lethbridge Daily Herald (December 23, 1908)

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VOLUME I1 LETHBRIDQE; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, I Mi
NUMBER
AWFUL REIGN
OF NIGHT
RIDERS
era! had to rt'i>e*t most of hi*
hwar them; .Kuaaell U under constant
guard. Ho fear* that he will be Mti-ed
in spite of the«« precautions. ~
jtell'j story was practically the
as that told by Fehr inf*r.
These Men Cared Not
What Crimes They
Committed
Union City, Dec. 22.—The eight de-fondants
in. tho Noght Raider trial
were brought into court today ha&d-cuffed
in pairs with a detail of two
soldiers for each pair." The soldiers
armed with rifle* halted at the door
and other soldiers armetf with revol-vers
met the prisoners at the thresh-old
and escorted them to the bar.
JtuL Shaw was the first witness.
Ho was the proprietor ot the store
ue&r 'Beelfoot Lake. He said the
riders forced him to give'them oil to
pour on the fish docks when they were
burned aud later whipped him, when
he tried ta go before, the Grand'Jury
Shaw said that the -Night Riders
wore Mother Hubbards and tried to
disguise their voices by,, talking— in
false tones. When Shaw was" sum-moned
before the drand Jury he tried
to slip into tho town at night. The
riders caught and threatened to kill
him, finally giving- him his choice of
. a switching or a hanging.^ s He jtold
them ho. was not "anxious to endorse
cither, but. that if he had to make a
choice he would prefer, the whipping
After the riders whipped him they
told bjim to run.
"Did you run?" enquired the court.
"You ought to have seen me,'*- re-torted
the witness; ~ - ~
Martin" Leonard, another f.irmer
near Reelfoot Lair; was' visited by the
Riders and was . given five-'days to
move under penalty of boiug hanged.
Asked it he moved, he observed that
he was still alive.; He. addedvthat
his home was burned. - Witness alter
witness fold of visitations 1 i jih'e Rid
era- and there was no Identification
and no -effort _ maid to connect thc
1- Riders with, the" lauVrtor of Caj-lain
Rankin or murderers. * "
One witness, -Mrs. Leo:,M'd,
: asked how many there were in
band which ylsiti-d. her, .said-"n
two hundred [ reckon, the \v6oda were
full of them. "
The afternoon witnesses ccntthueO
in coroboration. of Fehringevs con-fession
detaiLby detail, fftitl by raid.
"Ok1 "Msn1' 'S'agHTs.- c!«iaiv»L up tho mys
tery of his txkaati. it is Har/ey. Tie
was taken out;tind wnlpred.-He did
not know uh.it he was ^hip
: but said, 'It. wos -- powf'".ii
\ piece of leather..' He said
day the solli-i:s arrived, (.Vu.'rit John
son, one of Ihc Oight tfofcrninnts t.ibve
with him to camp Nemo." As* they
passed a little cottage, a.-"woman saw
the prisoner aud threw up her unns
and screamed-"Now*, thank GodJLcajy
tell what I kuow."'••."Sherwas takeis
under guard to . Union : City :for her
own protection.- The. woman; was Hiss
Anna Jackson. • -
She was. called to the stand .this
morning, She said the riders came
to her home, forced her to dress and
.accompany them to her father's with
hjr husband and daughter. They or-ofcred
her to kill some dogs she own-
" ed and burned her father's house. She
identified Johnson as the leader. The
HOME FOR CHRItrUAS,
CUr«nce Rogers is home from (Jpper
Canada College to spend Christmas
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gwo.
Koger*.
Masters A. and M. Naismith return
ed hoove from Upper Canada College
last night to spend the Christmas va-cation,
''
Leverett DeVeber arrived yesterday
from Trinity College School, i'ort
TX-— i— - ^— _— **A-»^ Ai-^" ^*.-r f.- 1 \_—^ *fc.!l.Lr W*"_
J.*WJt>«J tU *>£/V*AUL C4«j V.lCtv^lGTA ^<riv4A SIS
parents,^ Senator a,nd Mrs. DeVeber.
J"red Downer came home yesterday
from -Trinity College School,, Port
HOJXJ, to s[)ertd Hie' Christmastido at
his home .here.
Misses Ethel and EJeen Conybeare
who been
College and Master
i:i!g Havergal
Bruce of Upper
Canada Are holidaying at their home
here. - - ^
'Acting Mayor Ives will, face- the
puck at the match " between Pincher
CASTRO'S DAY
OF POWER
GONE
Gomez Is Now Hold-ing
the Reins In
Venezuela
Berlin, Dec. 23.— The Foreign Of-fice
'tlits moriing rec/ived advices
fiom Curacao, confirming press
Creek nnd^ .^J^thbridgc Christma«
night. '- / ,
A.petition for a daily naail and pas
scngcr;service is being circulated on
the" A. R & -T, 'line from Stirling
south. .' The petition will be 'present-ed
to thfe -company.
reports :,of the overthrow o.f President
Cast EC. ."'. "The whole country rose
against Castio," the communication
said. -
The Government -of "Gom<z has b en
greeted with sympathy by the native
population, and a large proportion of
the foreign residents.
A- good impression has been created
by the fact that Gomez already .has
taken steps to re-establish good rela-tions
with the powers.' The Foreign
Office has other information that Cas-tro's
return to Venezuela is /regarded
as out of the question. •;...-
LEMiEUX IS CONFIDENT.
: .1 '•"•" .::• >•:. .-• •
Thinks Chtaptr Cabfe Ratec Are
; £».»,..»» M«ru4.
New York, Dec. 23.~TJuit.not only
cheaper, but -very much cheaper rate*
for cablegrams across the" "Atlantic
<m- near at hand, was the'confident
assertion of Kodolphe;Leau'eux, the
Postmaster-General in" the Cantdian
Cabinet, this afternoon, "on the eve
of his departure for Canada after a
day spent in this city following his
iirrival fiom Europe last, night;
"The reform has b^eri" accomplish-ed
'ou the Pacific," declared ; Mr.
Lemk'ux, "and .it will soon ^come
about on; the Atlantic/' ^ /j'
If a State-owned cable is t<? be
bid it is the belief of Miv Lehncux
that ?t would eventually a^1 H m a
5 cents a word; - •-'
FIRE IN NEW YORK. •
New York, Dec. ,23.—More than a
thousand persons wore made horseless
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property 'destroyed in a. fire
which burned out a'block- of
rne'it houses between-; Second~\ and
Third Avenues anttForty-fourtK and
Forty-fifth Streets/ .Brooklyn, '{today.
Tweniy persons were 'overcome by
smoke, but were rescued - by th€> fire-men.
The great BuFh terminal -docks
the edge of the fire aonejwere
aved by a fire boat, which kept the
lames from sweeping orer Second
the
LABOR LEADERS TO GO
TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT
FAMOUS CONTEMPT CASE GOES
AGAINST AMERICAN : FEDERA-TION
OF LABOR OFFICIALS.
Wasliiugton, Dec.- 23.—The famous
contempt case of the Bucks Stove &
Range Company" against President
Gompors, Vice-President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison, of^tlie American
Federation of Labor, was decided to-day
by Justice Wright of tlie "^Su-preme
Court- pf: the District of Col-umbia,
adversely to the"Federation
officials. GomiMjrs was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, Mit-chell
to nine months, and Morrison
to sax^monlhs.
JTho case' gWir onf of the alleged
"boycott of the company's products
ix'id'the putting of the company on
ti)e "unfair list," and the federation's
alleged violation -of'-Judge Gould's re-c&
nt" mandamus has attracted wide
attention. The Bucks Company's prc-fcecution
of the officials •"-' the federa-tion
began in August, 1907. The orig-inal
action; was a test case, wherein
it was sought to ^enjoin labor unions
hom using , the "unfair'* and "we
don't, paironize Hsts" in "their fight
against firms and individuals. Jusr
Hce Gould, of the Supreme .Court of
the District of Columbia, issued an
injunction; which later was made
permanent, forbidding the publication
of the firms' names in these lists.
President Gompers, in an editorial in
the Federationist of' January last,
made known his-intention not''to
obey the court's order, .contending
that tnV injunction Lsued was in
derogation of the "rights of laBor and
an. abuse of the,injunction ^>ovirer of
tlie 'courts. Gompersi MitcEell^"xT
Morrison subsequently Vere cited for
contempt, and .this ,phase' of the case
has been before the court • for_ sev-eral,,
months;'1 by proceedings taking
the form of a hearing of testimony
before an examiner.
FATAL KICK BY HORSE. ,
Peterborough, Dec. 23.—Seven-year-old
Arthur.;Hodder is dead\s the^re-ssult
of a "kick from a horse while he
;v,!h was playing in hid father's poultry
yard in Smith township.
MUNICIPAL ELEVATOR BURNS.
Winnipeg, Dec. 22.—At a late hour
list evening the municipal elevator
at Maclean, Sask.,. was - completely
de?troyed' by fire,- together with 10,-
000 .bushels of ..wlieat. The loss is"
covered'-.by insurances
POLICE ROBBED
SIMCOE STORES
.-.l.Simcoo; Ont., Dec. 22.7-Wilkins, the
police constable of Simcoe, who char-.
Riders came back two nights later,-gcs. Chief-; Mslone with shooting him,
forced her toi go to her father's half r^o.w says?tSutr he aud the-chief .robb-ed
several stores in Simcoe prior to
the shooting and sonie of thy stolen
goods were found in.Wilkins' house.
Chief Malonc denies -the whole story.
SEARCH YOUR TOMATO CAN.
- Ea^t St.xJLouis, Ills., Dec. 22.—Pat-rick
Sullivar, an ice wagon driver,
tunnd a $10,000 bill in the bottom of
an old tomato can which lit- picked
up in an alley in thV residential part
of tho town. .
WANTS TO DISQUALIFY HIM.
Quebec, Dec. 22.—W. Price, mem-ber
for Quebec West, whose election
has been-protested, has filed a conn-clad_
and said there" had been same
talking done. They whipped her fa-ther
and then her sisters; *She heard
her sisters appeal for help'and began
.to scream, whereupon they thrcatcx *d
to whip her. She said she recogniz-ed
Johnson and several others. A
third time .they called to force her to
get rid; of her sister's little child be^
cause the latter had quarrelled with
another neighbor's child.
They told Mrs. Jackson that, if they
had to come again they would whip
her. A fourth time they'came to
whip her father because he _testified
before the Grand Jury. On the last
visit Garrett Johnson said thc wit-
. nes?, c,?Ked. hs-xiCsh'e had talked. She}
repikiJ -that sHe had not. "If you
were a man," Johnson retorted,-, IM
blow* your brains out. \Ve will hnng
you if you talk." v ""
When Mrs. Jackson tvas excused
from the stand she iurried to oxidge
Jones and said, "I wilt not leave thc
"•court room withVut armed protection
I know these men."
Mrs. Jackson told a very-vivid story
and identified ot least twenty-seven
members of the bam?. She was fol-lowed
on tho stand by her daughter,
£(iss Dora Jackson, an eighteen year
old girl, who corroborated her moth-er's
evidence.
The last witness of the day,
Russell, another of the alleged Night
Riders, who has turned state's. evi-dence.
Rusaell came to Union City
after the Rankin killing and made a
confession. Tfa wns trembling with
fear and could scarcely raise his voice
above a whisper. The Attorney-Gen- ing the past two days.
CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT
Very Successful Cantata by Wesley
Ohurch Sunday School.
A very successful" cantata and
Christmas entertainment was held
last night by the Sunday School of
Wesley Church.. "
The platform presented a
Vl
ty appearance being decorated with
evergreens, etc.. while a large Christ-mas
tree fully attired with the usual
good: things adorned each side. On
.the platform were seated all the schol
ars who took" , part in. the-cantata
the balance of the school "occupying
the frorjfvl-jats of the auditorium.
The entertainment opened with sing-ing^
""Stand up, stand up-for Jesus,'
and prayer, being offered by the pas-tor.
'"' . .- ' . ' • • - . • • " ' • ' • '
- A'welcome chorus; was then render
ed by the Primary Class, to the num
beHof over thirty, which was nicely
executed. " •
After a few opening remarks by th<
superintendent of the school, who act
ed as.'chairman,; the Cap.tata was pre
sented. which proved to be 'a grea
success,. Too much- cannot be said
in favor of Mr^A. Ely for his'untir
ing efforts in bringing the scholars to
such -n degree of perfection as was ex
hibited in last night's Cantata. Ev-ery
chorus and sonar possessed .that
tone and finish only seen in the work
of one capable of th« highest degree
of achievement, and last night's ren-dition
of "The Real Snnta Glaus"
proved Mr. Ely to be one of the most
efficient and capable instructors of
GOT TWO YEARS.
Winnipeg, Dec. 23.—Harry t? old-stein,
a youthful Winnipeg: foreigner,
was sentenced;,;to two years iii the
penitentiary.
PEOPLE DOWN
EAST WILL
REBEL
If the L C R. Is Handed
.Over To a Private
Company
Toronto, Dec. 23.—The World's
St. John, N.B., correspondent, quotes
President Foster of the Board of
Trade of that city as saying that he
believed people in New Brunswick
would rebel against the Intercolonial
being handed over to a private com-pany.
The Halifax correspondent of the
same paper says the belief in Halifax
and in Nova Scotia generally is that
the people would'bitterly resent gov-ernment
disposal of the people's rail-way.
They would welcome other nail
.ways., into tho province and would be
willing to"see the I. C. R. judiciously
utilized for the- accomplishnxint of
that purpose. They would especially
welcome the C.P.R.
CJTY AND DISTRICT.
Sir. and Mrs. Ewing of Toronto,
are visiting friends in the city lor a
j£w uiiyg.' . ' "
Jno.H. Galvjn arrived from Fernie
last night on a trip in connection
with the U. M. W. of A.
Fred Fitzo 'and'wife, Coeur D'Alaine
Idaho, will spend Chri«tztu.s with his
brpther-in-Javv, T. S. Mackenzie.
A. E. Ives has sold four lots on
Coutts St. in the rear of Dr. Mew-burn's
to Peter North, who expects to
build there in ttiasp-itig.
Root. N. Dickenson arrived in the
city yesteday from his ranch at
Coutts and is spending a few days in
the city.
Wing Wang Chung, who figured pro-minently
as the keeper of a disorderly
house has appealed his^case, which
will be brought before the presiding
judge at the next sitting of the dis-trict
court.
C. V. Bennett brought action again
st David King yesterday in the Dis-trict
Court for the payment of a note
which was disputed by King. The
case came under the sinali debt list
and his honor after consultation, sus-pended
judgment.
Ceo. Cropley, contractor of this
city is now lying in the Gait Hospi-tal
dang^ously ill of typhoid and is
not expected to recover. Mr. and
Mrs. Cropley were advised of their
son's condition by wire this morning
and are now in Lethbridge at the bed
side of their son. .
PUPILS' GIFTS
TO SCHOOL
TEACHERS
Feature Of Closing
Exercises For
Christmas
EIGHT YEARS IM PEN.f
\Vinnipeg, Dec. 22.^hillip Gr'een-auni,'
convicted of kdiainohd switch-.
ing heie~ was sentenced to eight
>r«!ars in the penitentiary.
WEST TO HAVE !
ANOTHER MINISTER
SASKATCHEWAN-LIKELY TO; BE
REPRESENTED IN CABINET.
Ottawa, Dec." 22;-5t' is vsaid • ix&poli- -..'/'• '._•• --. - - - • • ! -• - „-. • „ • -. - . * • • • - , ' - T\^,- . :
tical circles '.that if it'is found to', be
impossible to" .secure a^seat• for the
Hon. Wm.'. Templeman: in British
Columbia, Saskatchewan 'will ."b«
given, a' -Cabinet' Ministesr - ; in the
near future. '-In. that event. Ralph
Smith would -.become Minister for
YENNEY GETS OFF ON
A SUSPENDED SENTENCE
DECISION GIVEN IN THE CASE
IN WHICH A. R. AND I. AGENT
AT RAYMOND
ANT.
WAS DEFEND-The
trial of Wm. Yenney, ol Eay-mond,
concluded yesterday, the pris-oner
being found guilty and allowed
out, on suspended sentence.
The morning, as reported in our
last issue,7 was- speiit"" Tn^exaimimng
and cross-exarhining witnesses. Mir.
Lethbridge, auditor of the A; R. &
I; Co. and Mr. Green'culled as it ai-terwaTds
appeared^ by His Honor, on
account of Mr. Grt-eifs evidence put-tinjg
the accused in a favorable light.
Mr...Lethbridge, speaking^ on behalf
of tho companj', said that Mr.. Yenny
had been'employcd by them for the
;past twenty-two years and during
part of that time had acted as agent
for the company at Raymond.
Xot a breath of suspicion, had ever
British Columbia without "portfolio: Crusted^upaiv:Mr/Ye^iy and the Coai-
The Sasskatchewah ^Liberals / have"
been pressing the claims"' of -that pro-vince
for some weeks. G.--E. Mc-
Crariey's name is/ most -mentioned.
FATAL FALL FROM ENGINE.
Cornwall, Ont., Decl"
Truuk Fireman-. William ... Hargraye
t(41 from his engine near Lancaster
yesterday, and .sustained-, •-injuries
which caused his death. "His 'home'
was in Brockville, and he was about
23 vear.s old.
CHRB1TO TRADE
NEVER AS GOOD
tor-petition, asking that his opponent, music in the city. The Cantata was
Wni. Power, fop. disqualified.
GREAT RUSH
AT POST OFFICE
E. N. Higinl>otham told the Herald
received and listened to with
rapt attention throughout.
I). H. Elton, in tho role of both
tramp and Shnta Glaus, pleased his
audience immensely, as did Mr. Ely
as "Professor Big-wig." and Jennie
King as "Mollic Jackson-Brown."
The balance of the rote all carried
out their parts effectively. Miss Har-rison
acted as accompanist throughout
At the close of the cantata, Santa
today that there had been. & phenom-l~"
The merchants -are -.almost unani-mous
in declaring that the Christmas
trade this year is awray in advance of
other years. This means that the
trade Is phenomenally good as'nearly
every business man of 1907 has con-siderably
more competition this year.
Several merchants informed the Her-ald
that business during Christmas
week was double that of last year.
Others remarked that the .holiday-trade
has been in force for three
weeks past.
One merchant said " that thc pur-chasing
was general along all lines of
his stock and there was a'general com
ment to th<e effect that a better
of goods were being purchased.
The buying has been done much ear-lier
this/ year and thc merchants are
much relieved on that account ns it
will mean less of a rush in the last
moments of the* Christmas season.
TWO MONTHS
AT HARD LABOR
. Jot Alkovish and Jos. Kolbwitz,
two Russians, were today before
pany had always considered -him a
valued and trustworthy servant. In
fact Mr. Lethbridge would go so far
as to say that Yenny was the b«'St
agent the company had employed.. .
After an1 adjournment for the lun-cheon,
hour Judge Winter again took
his place on the bench when W. C.
Simmons presented 'tlie case for the
defence. .
Mr. Simnions spoke-, for nearly an
hour .and said that in his opiuion the
whole trial reduced itself to a case of
one man's word against another's.
He further stated- that, he did not
believe it possible that a man of Mr.
Thompsons loose business habitr
could .be expected to remember what
had become of every dollar of his in-come;
he keeping no cash book, ha'V"
ing no bank account, and payinjr cash
away and receiving it in a most in-discriminate
manner. Air." Simmons
then made a strong point by means
of contrast when he" remarked itpon
thc evidence of the Company ai to
the ability of accused to turn his ac-counts
in. year by year, bundling in
tho intervening period some thou-sands
of dollars, perfectly bal-anced
to a cent,
against another?
Jt<r say which man's word in your own
opinion is i ,/,'bo nVIicd upon" and it
was felt in thc court that MV. Sim-mons
had presented the cnse for thc
defendant in a very strong manner.
Counsel Tor tho defense then re-:
marked upon the injustice o* the Co'm
pany in not giving a greater chance
to adjust this matter.as no doubt it
had been done many times before,
outside the court, as to hivn it ap-peared
that JYcnny's " jjr«atii-:t fault
had been in acting the part of a jolly
good fellow to Thompson in gi'-ing
him delivery of his consignments of
coal before freight accounts were paid
Tn eiosirtg' his remarks counsel said,
that he felt," with all the evidence in
his client's favor, that existed, he
could confidently hope lhat ihe
Lshment thi\t had been alroady n-.cted
out to Yenny would in His IV.ir.or's
opinion be deemed, aufficlont. This
ended the case for the "defendant.
dence that he did and demanding re-dress,
they could do no better than
bring, action against defendant.
At - this point Mr. Simmons arose
and said that if Mr. Conybeare would
tell His Honor who he (Mr. Cony-beare)
had come to represent, no
doubt the court would understand his
attitude.
Mr. Cbnybeare at once replied, "I
am hero on behalf of the Attorney
General.", ' . . ' . '
Mr. Conybeare, then continuing,
said that he felt that the most con-demning
part of the evidence was to be
found IK two exhibits each purporting
to be carbon paper copies of ilie oth-er,
but which could be plainly
to be .separate copies pi bills No. 1
and 2, made, on different occasioas,
and that Yenuy had said in his evi-
'dence that he had placed the original
exhibits in the stove. -
For , some time Mr. Conybeare
sought to prove beyond a doubt that
accused was guilty of obtaining mon-ey
under false pretences, citing sever-a*-
cases.
At this juncture the Judge said he
Throughout the schools of the city
this morning there was a joyous holi-day
air. Closing exercises, open to
the public, were held in all the
rooms with tlie exception of the
kindergarten. Fathers and mothers,
big brothers and ^sisters' and other
interested persons turned out in very
fair numbers to witness the "break-ing
up" exercises."
In every room they were treated to
,candy until they had to risk hurting
the children's feelings by refusing to
indulge further. The exercises
throughout were very creditably per-formed.
The motion songs and clev-erly
rendered dialogues and recita-tions
in all of the junior rooms'came
in for no small amount of commenda-tion.
Many of the visitors were espe-cially
interested in the performances
of the little tots. Miss Sharman's
and Mr. Brandow's classes held their
closing exercises together, and per-forme'd
their parts with <i zest and
enthusiasm that-interested everybody.
The pupils of the High school had
-i meeting of the Literary Society to
\viad up the year's work. The gen-eral
literary and musical program
was up to the standard of their for-mer
meetings.
Most of the rooms were very pret-tily
decorated with evergreens, paper
chains, etc. Those in Miss Nim-nions',
Miss McKay's, Miss Addy's,
Miss Preston's and • Miss Sharman's
being especially pretty. The tree in
Miss Preston's room delighted the
childrou. In some of the rooms the
pupils' work In drawing was on ex-hibition.
Tlie water colors by.
Nimmons'. class and the. free hand
and compositsion work by MissShar-aiau's
class, were especially fine.
The two.-part .singing by Miss Shar-nian's
girls was' a surprise to the
visitors.
The teachers were the recipients of
tokens..of esteem from their pupils.
Mr. Hamilton's class .selected as a
Xinas gift for the principal a self-filling
fountain pen swith gold trim-,
mings. .Miss Bennett received a
would adjourn the court for a quar- ^ench grey silver", jewel case from
standard G, Mr. Morgan a- pair of
gold-filled cuff lirfks from standard
VII., Mr. Brandow was given a scarf
pin set y-ith pearls, Miss Sharman a
ter of an hour and would then, return
and give judgment. .
There was great expectation on tlie
-part of the filled court as almost to
the minute his Jordship made his ap-pearance.
. -
Prisoner remained standing, as his
honor summing up said that weigh-ing
all the •"•' circumstances he would
bind him in his own recognisance of
§500 to come up for sentence when
called upon.'
"One man j word
I ask jyo'ir honor
_. Ch r.i,s.t mas post. al, b, usi.n ess d.u r-1 „sc h, oo, l, d,is tnbut.e d ...t h.e girts to the
, scholars from tho Christmas trt-os.
snpr the post ccupie of weeks. -The
salo of stamps on Monday alone
reached two hxmdred dollars. The reg
Mr. Lundy, secretary of the school,
presented a report of the year's work,
which showed thc school to be mak-istrntions
were abnormal, indicating '•"«? suhstantial progress.
that the people wero investir^ in a
moro expensive class of presents, j thc
of the pres?ntotlo«
rc:n the scho°l to Doris
Thcre^ were over three hundred and
fifty outgoing r^istereri psrcsls rt«r-
Tuckwell of a beautiful doll, in ap-preciation
of the fact that she was
MANY SALES OF
FARMLAND
T. S. Mackenzie 'told the Herald
this morning that he had sold over
two thousand acres of "land ih^this
vicinity this week. The demand for
farm land is active and the prices are
good. He expects a ^ery heavy rush
of buyers from (he new year on.
RUGBY IN ENGLAND.
London, Bng., Dec. 23.—Yesterday's
Rugby Barnes resulted as" follows:^-
Cambridge University 11, North of
Ireland 0:
Awstralwr.s. 3. Albert Tilery 3.
STOLE MAIL PACKAGE.
Kansas City. Doc. 23.—A mail pack-ape
containing sixty pounds of rejri.s-l-?
rinl mail matter consigned to East-i
rn points, was stolen from a baggage
room of tho Belt Lino R.R. .last night.
A STRIKE IN
COURTS OF N.S.
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 22.—The sten-od
by thft mafrUlrnto at Tabor to
stnnd their trial at the District Court.
Tho charge wa« that on tho 18th
of December they did unlawfully
kill._with intont to steal, one seven i
months' old-heifer, tho property ofi
\Vrii Conrad, of'Tabor. Kolbwitz
pleaded jrv.ilty, and was sentenced to
two months' hnrd labor in N.VV.M.P.
Barracks.
•JT «*~»«" —. r
Khe only scholar present every Sun- 'r-10 e-iar?e agaimt A!kovv=h was
I . "* ' •, i i day throughout the y»ar. withdrawn.
K. C., arose claiming the attention of
the C-virt on behalf of the Crown and
his first words were in defence of the
A. R. & T. Co. who he said had act-ed
in every way honorable to them-selves
and leniently to tho prisoner,
vind in tho matter of laying a trap
for their formor employee, which had
been suggested .by his learned friend
this had never at any time been an
object of thc company, Mr. Thomp-son
possessing the documentary evi-
Court of Nova Scotia are on strike.
The trouble has been brewing for a
long time nnd come to a head today j
handsbVue jewel case, Miss Preston
a -set of Beauty, pin-s, Miss Nimmons
a gold pin. set with pearls^ along with
"marfiy pretty gifts from, individual
pupils; Miss Addy, a silver button'
hook, paper ^ knife, handkerchiefs,
etc. Miss.s : McDonald, a Bass vase
and other articles. The pupils, in
the lower forms did not combine in -
clloosing their presents, but down to
the kindergarten the little tots could:
be seen carrying their parcels", which'
they proudly presented 'to their teach-ers.
• ' • .
At the Courtland Street school
Miss .McCulIdch and Miss E. S. Shar-man
held their closing exercises to-er.'
It was well attended, and.
very much enjoyed by the young
people and parents in that part of
tlie city. The renderings of the dif-ferent
.numbers showed cari'ful train-ing.
_ - " ,
Westminster School.
At, Westminster school the Xmas
spirit was in the air. The rooms
were all tastefully adorned with suit-,
ahli- decorations' for Xmas, and the
forenoon was one' round of merri-ment.
The two lower classes assem-bled
in^Miss Kinniburgh's TOOTS,
where tho little tots -spent such an
hour in son?, siory, games and laugh-ter
as will not soon be forgotten.
Thf pupils from Miss Gibson's room
united with those fmcri Mr. David-son's
room, and he:«, too, a splendid
program of chorals, solos, recita-tions,
etc., was carried out. Among
thost.' who recited were Frances Duns-worth,
Frances Carter. Mabel Hyssop,
Polly Stunner,''Albert Hunt and Wil-lie
Cain."
A unique feature »f thc concert
was tho sikiging of several German
songs by Otto Vogel and Willie Bud-desh.
im. There was a good tamotit
of visitors, about 50* parents being
presont, and they all expressed them-selves
as being highly pleased with
the way in which the children ac-quitted
lhrms'>lves in their various
when Mr. Justice Russell who was I < l l > r
practicing at Chambers, said: "I ds-1?ram oach PuPil
iios. nuts and fniit.
OUi Santit was very much in evi-and
at the close of thc pro-treated
to can-cline
to act both as judge and step-j
ographor."
'IThe stenographers are overworked
and underpaid and they don't pro-pose
to stand that kind of thing."-
Principal Davidson was thc recip-ient
of a handsome present from th*
boys and giila of his class; also a
Vt-iy acceptable gift from a number
f tho bovs.

VOLUME I1 LETHBRIDQE; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, I Mi
NUMBER
AWFUL REIGN
OF NIGHT
RIDERS
era! had to rt'i>e*t most of hi*
hwar them; .Kuaaell U under constant
guard. Ho fear* that he will be Mti-ed
in spite of the«« precautions. ~
jtell'j story was practically the
as that told by Fehr inf*r.
These Men Cared Not
What Crimes They
Committed
Union City, Dec. 22.—The eight de-fondants
in. tho Noght Raider trial
were brought into court today ha&d-cuffed
in pairs with a detail of two
soldiers for each pair." The soldiers
armed with rifle* halted at the door
and other soldiers armetf with revol-vers
met the prisoners at the thresh-old
and escorted them to the bar.
JtuL Shaw was the first witness.
Ho was the proprietor ot the store
ue&r 'Beelfoot Lake. He said the
riders forced him to give'them oil to
pour on the fish docks when they were
burned aud later whipped him, when
he tried ta go before, the Grand'Jury
Shaw said that the -Night Riders
wore Mother Hubbards and tried to
disguise their voices by,, talking— in
false tones. When Shaw was" sum-moned
before the drand Jury he tried
to slip into tho town at night. The
riders caught and threatened to kill
him, finally giving- him his choice of
. a switching or a hanging.^ s He jtold
them ho. was not "anxious to endorse
cither, but. that if he had to make a
choice he would prefer, the whipping
After the riders whipped him they
told bjim to run.
"Did you run?" enquired the court.
"You ought to have seen me,'*- re-torted
the witness; ~ - ~
Martin" Leonard, another f.irmer
near Reelfoot Lair; was' visited by the
Riders and was . given five-'days to
move under penalty of boiug hanged.
Asked it he moved, he observed that
he was still alive.; He. addedvthat
his home was burned. - Witness alter
witness fold of visitations 1 i jih'e Rid
era- and there was no Identification
and no -effort _ maid to connect thc
1- Riders with, the" lauVrtor of Caj-lain
Rankin or murderers. * "
One witness, -Mrs. Leo:,M'd,
: asked how many there were in
band which ylsiti-d. her, .said-"n
two hundred [ reckon, the \v6oda were
full of them. "
The afternoon witnesses ccntthueO
in coroboration. of Fehringevs con-fession
detaiLby detail, fftitl by raid.
"Ok1 "Msn1' 'S'agHTs.- c!«iaiv»L up tho mys
tery of his txkaati. it is Har/ey. Tie
was taken out;tind wnlpred.-He did
not know uh.it he was ^hip
: but said, 'It. wos -- powf'".ii
\ piece of leather..' He said
day the solli-i:s arrived, (.Vu.'rit John
son, one of Ihc Oight tfofcrninnts t.ibve
with him to camp Nemo." As* they
passed a little cottage, a.-"woman saw
the prisoner aud threw up her unns
and screamed-"Now*, thank GodJLcajy
tell what I kuow."'••."Sherwas takeis
under guard to . Union : City :for her
own protection.- The. woman; was Hiss
Anna Jackson. • -
She was. called to the stand .this
morning, She said the riders came
to her home, forced her to dress and
.accompany them to her father's with
hjr husband and daughter. They or-ofcred
her to kill some dogs she own-
" ed and burned her father's house. She
identified Johnson as the leader. The
HOME FOR CHRItrUAS,
CUr«nce Rogers is home from (Jpper
Canada College to spend Christmas
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gwo.
Koger*.
Masters A. and M. Naismith return
ed hoove from Upper Canada College
last night to spend the Christmas va-cation,
''
Leverett DeVeber arrived yesterday
from Trinity College School, i'ort
TX-— i— - ^— _— **A-»^ Ai-^" ^*.-r f.- 1 \_—^ *fc.!l.Lr W*"_
J.*WJt>«J tU *>£/V*AUL C4«j V.lCtv^lGTA ^•:. .-• •
Thinks Chtaptr Cabfe Ratec Are
; £».»,..»» M«ru4.
New York, Dec. 23.~TJuit.not only
cheaper, but -very much cheaper rate*
for cablegrams across the" "Atlantic
fire-men.
The great BuFh terminal -docks
the edge of the fire aonejwere
aved by a fire boat, which kept the
lames from sweeping orer Second
the
LABOR LEADERS TO GO
TO JAIL FOR CONTEMPT
FAMOUS CONTEMPT CASE GOES
AGAINST AMERICAN : FEDERA-TION
OF LABOR OFFICIALS.
Wasliiugton, Dec.- 23.—The famous
contempt case of the Bucks Stove &
Range Company" against President
Gompors, Vice-President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison, of^tlie American
Federation of Labor, was decided to-day
by Justice Wright of tlie "^Su-preme
Court- pf: the District of Col-umbia,
adversely to the"Federation
officials. GomiMjrs was sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment, Mit-chell
to nine months, and Morrison
to sax^monlhs.
JTho case' gWir onf of the alleged
"boycott of the company's products
ix'id'the putting of the company on
ti)e "unfair list," and the federation's
alleged violation -of'-Judge Gould's re-c&
nt" mandamus has attracted wide
attention. The Bucks Company's prc-fcecution
of the officials •"-' the federa-tion
began in August, 1907. The orig-inal
action; was a test case, wherein
it was sought to ^enjoin labor unions
hom using , the "unfair'* and "we
don't, paironize Hsts" in "their fight
against firms and individuals. Jusr
Hce Gould, of the Supreme .Court of
the District of Columbia, issued an
injunction; which later was made
permanent, forbidding the publication
of the firms' names in these lists.
President Gompers, in an editorial in
the Federationist of' January last,
made known his-intention not''to
obey the court's order, .contending
that tnV injunction Lsued was in
derogation of the "rights of laBor and
an. abuse of the,injunction ^>ovirer of
tlie 'courts. Gompersi MitcEell^"xT
Morrison subsequently Vere cited for
contempt, and .this ,phase' of the case
has been before the court • for_ sev-eral,,
months;'1 by proceedings taking
the form of a hearing of testimony
before an examiner.
FATAL KICK BY HORSE. ,
Peterborough, Dec. 23.—Seven-year-old
Arthur.;Hodder is dead\s the^re-ssult
of a "kick from a horse while he
;v,!h was playing in hid father's poultry
yard in Smith township.
MUNICIPAL ELEVATOR BURNS.
Winnipeg, Dec. 22.—At a late hour
list evening the municipal elevator
at Maclean, Sask.,. was - completely
de?troyed' by fire,- together with 10,-
000 .bushels of ..wlieat. The loss is"
covered'-.by insurances
POLICE ROBBED
SIMCOE STORES
.-.l.Simcoo; Ont., Dec. 22.7-Wilkins, the
police constable of Simcoe, who char-.
Riders came back two nights later,-gcs. Chief-; Mslone with shooting him,
forced her toi go to her father's half r^o.w says?tSutr he aud the-chief .robb-ed
several stores in Simcoe prior to
the shooting and sonie of thy stolen
goods were found in.Wilkins' house.
Chief Malonc denies -the whole story.
SEARCH YOUR TOMATO CAN.
- Ea^t St.xJLouis, Ills., Dec. 22.—Pat-rick
Sullivar, an ice wagon driver,
tunnd a $10,000 bill in the bottom of
an old tomato can which lit- picked
up in an alley in thV residential part
of tho town. .
WANTS TO DISQUALIFY HIM.
Quebec, Dec. 22.—W. Price, mem-ber
for Quebec West, whose election
has been-protested, has filed a conn-clad_
and said there" had been same
talking done. They whipped her fa-ther
and then her sisters; *She heard
her sisters appeal for help'and began
.to scream, whereupon they thrcatcx *d
to whip her. She said she recogniz-ed
Johnson and several others. A
third time .they called to force her to
get rid; of her sister's little child be^
cause the latter had quarrelled with
another neighbor's child.
They told Mrs. Jackson that, if they
had to come again they would whip
her. A fourth time they'came to
whip her father because he _testified
before the Grand Jury. On the last
visit Garrett Johnson said thc wit-
. nes?, c,?Ked. hs-xiCsh'e had talked. She}
repikiJ -that sHe had not. "If you
were a man," Johnson retorted,-, IM
blow* your brains out. \Ve will hnng
you if you talk." v ""
When Mrs. Jackson tvas excused
from the stand she iurried to oxidge
Jones and said, "I wilt not leave thc
"•court room withVut armed protection
I know these men."
Mrs. Jackson told a very-vivid story
and identified ot least twenty-seven
members of the bam?. She was fol-lowed
on tho stand by her daughter,
£(iss Dora Jackson, an eighteen year
old girl, who corroborated her moth-er's
evidence.
The last witness of the day,
Russell, another of the alleged Night
Riders, who has turned state's. evi-dence.
Rusaell came to Union City
after the Rankin killing and made a
confession. Tfa wns trembling with
fear and could scarcely raise his voice
above a whisper. The Attorney-Gen- ing the past two days.
CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT
Very Successful Cantata by Wesley
Ohurch Sunday School.
A very successful" cantata and
Christmas entertainment was held
last night by the Sunday School of
Wesley Church.. "
The platform presented a
Vl
ty appearance being decorated with
evergreens, etc.. while a large Christ-mas
tree fully attired with the usual
good: things adorned each side. On
.the platform were seated all the schol
ars who took" , part in. the-cantata
the balance of the school "occupying
the frorjfvl-jats of the auditorium.
The entertainment opened with sing-ing^
""Stand up, stand up-for Jesus,'
and prayer, being offered by the pas-tor.
'"' . .- ' . ' • • - . • • " ' • ' • '
- A'welcome chorus; was then render
ed by the Primary Class, to the num
beHof over thirty, which was nicely
executed. " •
After a few opening remarks by th<
superintendent of the school, who act
ed as.'chairman,; the Cap.tata was pre
sented. which proved to be 'a grea
success,. Too much- cannot be said
in favor of Mr^A. Ely for his'untir
ing efforts in bringing the scholars to
such -n degree of perfection as was ex
hibited in last night's Cantata. Ev-ery
chorus and sonar possessed .that
tone and finish only seen in the work
of one capable of th« highest degree
of achievement, and last night's ren-dition
of "The Real Snnta Glaus"
proved Mr. Ely to be one of the most
efficient and capable instructors of
GOT TWO YEARS.
Winnipeg, Dec. 23.—Harry t? old-stein,
a youthful Winnipeg: foreigner,
was sentenced;,;to two years iii the
penitentiary.
PEOPLE DOWN
EAST WILL
REBEL
If the L C R. Is Handed
.Over To a Private
Company
Toronto, Dec. 23.—The World's
St. John, N.B., correspondent, quotes
President Foster of the Board of
Trade of that city as saying that he
believed people in New Brunswick
would rebel against the Intercolonial
being handed over to a private com-pany.
The Halifax correspondent of the
same paper says the belief in Halifax
and in Nova Scotia generally is that
the people would'bitterly resent gov-ernment
disposal of the people's rail-way.
They would welcome other nail
.ways., into tho province and would be
willing to"see the I. C. R. judiciously
utilized for the- accomplishnxint of
that purpose. They would especially
welcome the C.P.R.
CJTY AND DISTRICT.
Sir. and Mrs. Ewing of Toronto,
are visiting friends in the city lor a
j£w uiiyg.' . ' "
Jno.H. Galvjn arrived from Fernie
last night on a trip in connection
with the U. M. W. of A.
Fred Fitzo 'and'wife, Coeur D'Alaine
Idaho, will spend Chri«tztu.s with his
brpther-in-Javv, T. S. Mackenzie.
A. E. Ives has sold four lots on
Coutts St. in the rear of Dr. Mew-burn's
to Peter North, who expects to
build there in ttiasp-itig.
Root. N. Dickenson arrived in the
city yesteday from his ranch at
Coutts and is spending a few days in
the city.
Wing Wang Chung, who figured pro-minently
as the keeper of a disorderly
house has appealed his^case, which
will be brought before the presiding
judge at the next sitting of the dis-trict
court.
C. V. Bennett brought action again
st David King yesterday in the Dis-trict
Court for the payment of a note
which was disputed by King. The
case came under the sinali debt list
and his honor after consultation, sus-pended
judgment.
Ceo. Cropley, contractor of this
city is now lying in the Gait Hospi-tal
dang^ously ill of typhoid and is
not expected to recover. Mr. and
Mrs. Cropley were advised of their
son's condition by wire this morning
and are now in Lethbridge at the bed
side of their son. .
PUPILS' GIFTS
TO SCHOOL
TEACHERS
Feature Of Closing
Exercises For
Christmas
EIGHT YEARS IM PEN.f
\Vinnipeg, Dec. 22.^hillip Gr'een-auni,'
convicted of kdiainohd switch-.
ing heie~ was sentenced to eight
>r«!ars in the penitentiary.
WEST TO HAVE !
ANOTHER MINISTER
SASKATCHEWAN-LIKELY TO; BE
REPRESENTED IN CABINET.
Ottawa, Dec." 22;-5t' is vsaid • ix&poli- -..'/'• '._•• --. - - - • • ! -• - „-. • „ • -. - . * • • • - , ' - T\^,- . :
tical circles '.that if it'is found to', be
impossible to" .secure a^seat• for the
Hon. Wm.'. Templeman: in British
Columbia, Saskatchewan 'will ."b«
given, a' -Cabinet' Ministesr - ; in the
near future. '-In. that event. Ralph
Smith would -.become Minister for
YENNEY GETS OFF ON
A SUSPENDED SENTENCE
DECISION GIVEN IN THE CASE
IN WHICH A. R. AND I. AGENT
AT RAYMOND
ANT.
WAS DEFEND-The
trial of Wm. Yenney, ol Eay-mond,
concluded yesterday, the pris-oner
being found guilty and allowed
out, on suspended sentence.
The morning, as reported in our
last issue,7 was- speiit"" Tn^exaimimng
and cross-exarhining witnesses. Mir.
Lethbridge, auditor of the A; R. &
I; Co. and Mr. Green'culled as it ai-terwaTds
appeared^ by His Honor, on
account of Mr. Grt-eifs evidence put-tinjg
the accused in a favorable light.
Mr...Lethbridge, speaking^ on behalf
of tho companj', said that Mr.. Yenny
had been'employcd by them for the
;past twenty-two years and during
part of that time had acted as agent
for the company at Raymond.
Xot a breath of suspicion, had ever
British Columbia without "portfolio: Crusted^upaiv:Mr/Ye^iy and the Coai-
The Sasskatchewah ^Liberals / have"
been pressing the claims"' of -that pro-vince
for some weeks. G.--E. Mc-
Crariey's name is/ most -mentioned.
FATAL FALL FROM ENGINE.
Cornwall, Ont., Decl"
Truuk Fireman-. William ... Hargraye
t(41 from his engine near Lancaster
yesterday, and .sustained-, •-injuries
which caused his death. "His 'home'
was in Brockville, and he was about
23 vear.s old.
CHRB1TO TRADE
NEVER AS GOOD
tor-petition, asking that his opponent, music in the city. The Cantata was
Wni. Power, fop. disqualified.
GREAT RUSH
AT POST OFFICE
E. N. Higinl>otham told the Herald
received and listened to with
rapt attention throughout.
I). H. Elton, in tho role of both
tramp and Shnta Glaus, pleased his
audience immensely, as did Mr. Ely
as "Professor Big-wig." and Jennie
King as "Mollic Jackson-Brown."
The balance of the rote all carried
out their parts effectively. Miss Har-rison
acted as accompanist throughout
At the close of the cantata, Santa
today that there had been. & phenom-l~"
The merchants -are -.almost unani-mous
in declaring that the Christmas
trade this year is awray in advance of
other years. This means that the
trade Is phenomenally good as'nearly
every business man of 1907 has con-siderably
more competition this year.
Several merchants informed the Her-ald
that business during Christmas
week was double that of last year.
Others remarked that the .holiday-trade
has been in force for three
weeks past.
One merchant said " that thc pur-chasing
was general along all lines of
his stock and there was a'general com
ment to thlves in their various
when Mr. Justice Russell who was I < l l > r
practicing at Chambers, said: "I ds-1?ram oach PuPil
iios. nuts and fniit.
OUi Santit was very much in evi-and
at the close of thc pro-treated
to can-cline
to act both as judge and step-j
ographor."
'IThe stenographers are overworked
and underpaid and they don't pro-pose
to stand that kind of thing."-
Principal Davidson was thc recip-ient
of a handsome present from th*
boys and giila of his class; also a
Vt-iy acceptable gift from a number
f tho bovs.